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Monday, May 21, 2012

Giveaway Day - Vintage Sewing Supplies

Update: The winner is #164 Farscapegirl. She said, "I'm just having fun jumping around different blogs taking part in the
giveaway. Your giveaway is very generous! Thanks for chance to win a
bunch of cool sewing stuff!"

Today I will be giving away some vintage sewing supplies handed down to me. It's sort of a conglomeration, but vintage sewing supplies are fun to use and display. I have many more of these supplies in a glass jar in my craft room.

To win, please leave a comment. Any comment will do, but if you need a topic, tell me about your favorite sewing tool. :D US Only please.

The contest will close Friday, May 25th at 3 PM EST and I will choose a winner by Sunday.

My favorite tool.... I love my pattern weights. I made them from two giant washers and wrapped them in yarn so they're all pretty. I think I made 8 or 10 of them? Anyway, they are so awesome for cutting out, since I detest pinning!Thank you for the giveaway!

Lovely giveaway, thank you! Although it's not my favorite, I seem to bump into my seam ripper more times than I'd like. I invested in some only-for-fabric scissors not too long ago and love how dreamy they cut. Yay for tools that work nicely! info@samarrakhaja.com

Thanks for the fun giveaway! My favorite sewing tool isn't really meant to be a sewing tool at all. It's a clear plastic ruler with a zero in the middle and inches going outward in both directions. It's marvelous for finding the middle of things. Unfortunately, it's only 12 inches long, but I love that thing!

I love vintage sewing supplies! My favorite sewing tool? I guess just my really lovely Gingher fabric scissors. I never realized how crappy my old cutting tools were until I coughed up and got a really nice set of scissors!

vintage supplies! how fun!! i have bought lots of garage sales, and always suprise myself how i use them...at valentines day we used yards and yards of hem tape to make bunting for my daughters kingergarten class! yay for vintage supplies on hand! thanks for a chance

I love vintage sewing supplies and tools. This is a wonderful giveaway prize. My favorite tool these days is probably my new sewing machine. Is that cheating? I got a new machine about 4 months ago and we're still in that honeymoon period where it can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned.

Great vintage stuff! My favorite tool is this little wooden roller used for paper piecing. It works great at "ironing" the little pieces down without have to get up and use a hot iron. Thanks for the chance!

I would LOVE to win this to give to my amazing quilting teacher who I have been lucky enough to have for three classes now. She is amazing and has taught me soo much! My favorite tool besides my sewing machine is a seam ripper ; )

Favorite sewing tool is my rotary cutter and board. It's just so darn useful. I have also recently fallen in love with dressmaker's chalk; it works so much better than a pencil, which is what I used to use.

What a fun collection of notions. I have been blessed to get things like that handed down to me from my Grandma and other friends - I also found a bunch once at a garage sale. I have been amazed at how fast I have used many of them up however. I would love to win.

I love vintage sewing stuff! I have alot of wooden spools of thread that I have found at thrift stores. It's neat to see the prices and the different companies. My favorite sewing tool at the moment is a ruler. It's 6 1/2" x 2 1/2". I like that 6 1/2" is small enough to fit in my sewing kit and the 2 1/2" wide is great and more convenient than just 1".

not sure i'd call it my favorite tool, but the one that gets the most use is my seam ripper!! thanks for the opportunity to win those lovely vintage (i'm vintage, too, so most of them are way too familiar!!) have a great day

Oh I love vintage sewing things. Mmm, seam ripper is the one I need to have on hand and my pinking shears are the ones I like the best. They cut these tiny little triangles out of fabric that are cute and magically keep it from fraying!

I love vintage items,especially laces. I have my mothers old sewing box and some of the items she had are still in it. I would love to win these to add to the collection. Thanks for a chance to win them.

I'm not sure about my favourite sewing tool, but one I am using wayyy more often than I expected is the little foldable scissors that my sister gave me last year. I have them in a little sewing kit in my bag all the time now and I'm forever cutting threads for something!

vintage sewing tools?!? OOH AAWWEESOME i am a high school student that had to learn sewing by myself..getting to be able to use some new tools would be awesome! thanks so much for the post! ^^i see lots of people love rotary cutters....looks like i need to get me one! hehe

FABULOUS!!!!! What a clever and generous prize....sorry to say that I would not have been able to part with these cool things....like your style...signing up for your blog! Check my new blog out, too! On the QT-Quilting tangents.

Thanks so much for participating and for offering this lovely prize. I love all things vintage so I might just display them if I won. I am enjoying the going to all the different blogs and seeing what everyone is interested in and making, very inspiring! Now I just need to get off my rump and make something. . .LOL!

I think that my favorite sewing supply is an abstract... and it's space. Space to properly lay things out and cut, space to leave my machine set up for a few days... Something I certainly don't underestimate the usefulness of these days!

Thanks for the giveaway! I have my grandmothers tin of buttons and I love sifting through them and seeing the bits of cloth still attached to some when she cut the buttons off of a piece of clothing. Many of the buttons are from my grandfathers police uniforms...I use those along with bakers twine when I wrap special gifts for my mom or brother.

These look really cool! I have a few things from my grandma, I especially love the old buttons and beads! Don't know if I count since I'm in :) Alaska. Sorry if that doesn't count as "the US" :) I don't know if I could bear to give up all that cool stuff!!